Miss Tay

Yes!!! thank you all!! I got the job- finally I can start working as a nurse!! It is at a long term care facility, full time,day shift,12 hour shifts!! I feel so lucky because rarely do new grads get day shift!! Plus the orientation and support that new grads get is second to none in this area, This really seems like a place that I can stay for a long time. I am so excited to finally start working!

Thankfully I am 98% sure that I have finally found a job... It is at a Long term care facility full time, day shift 12 hour shifts!!!! The support they give their new grad LPNs is second to none in this area and I find out 100 percent tommorrow!! I am very excited, I will let you all know what happens tommorrow. Thanks for you replies!!

thanks for you prayers, I have applied for almost every nursing home in this area.. still nothing. I even took a seasonal job at Macy's just to have something, but now that job is over and I'm no closer to a nursing job than I was before. It seems that noone wants to quit and when they do quit the nursing homes are piling the work on the reaminig nurses instead of hiring, I know a girl with 5 years experience as an LPN and it still tooke her 4 months to get a job once she left her other one so I feel no hope for me as a new grad!!

I am in your same situation It's been six months since I was licensed and still NO jobs or job leads, I even had an interview back when I was first licensed in july. Mind you, she had called and called me, for days we played phone tag before we actually set up the interview, She seemed very interested in me. Anyways long story short we got to the interview and after asking me a few questions she then got an annoyed look on her face and cut me off right in the middle of my sentence and said. "I'm going to tell you right now that I won't be hiring you, Because this is the type of job for us nurses that have put in our dues, not new grads." in a really snotty voice!!! I was shocked I sat there a moment then I asked "May I ask why you decided to interview me?" She then said that she hadn't got very many responses to the ad and didn't really have a choice. PS- the job was for an LPN for a MRDD group home passing the daily meds to 10 residents-That's it!! so then after she said that she then said "well you do have medical assistant experience so you're not totally green, but this is an easy job and you wouldn't learn much, you'd just pass the meds and monitor the patients and not anything indepth except a tube feed, I would be a phone call away should anything emergent happen, but you would be the only nurse on duty until your shift ends and it's really something for someone with experience" So I thought to myself, How are you going to sit on your high horse and tell me that the job is easy and you would be a phone call away and then diss me and tell me you are not going to be hiring me not to mention waste my time by even calling me to interview, she had to have seen my resume and application because I applied online. So then after all that she had the nerve to ask me for my nursing license and my ID and Social Security Card, because she "might give me a break and change her mind"!!! Ummm No thanks!! I don't need any favors form someone like that!! So I told her that it was in my purse in the car and that I would be right back in with it. I hoped in the car and sped away so fast and didn't even llok back. She even had more nerve to call my house looking for me!! My fiance said she had called and asked what happened to me!! LOL!! so yeah I feel your pain!! I went home and cried to my fiance about how bizarre and unfair the interview was!! I was heartbroken because the job did pay well, even better than the nursing homes!!I have never felt so discriminated against, she made me feel as though I was worthless for being a new grad. All I know is, If I don't have anything by my 1 year licensure anniverassary I am going back to college full time and possibly giving up on nursing altogether

Hello everyone, I am writing this because I am depressed, need advice and need to vent!! (Sorry it's looong) I graduated from a very well resepected LPN program in June 2009 and was the very first one in my class to take the NCLEX test which was in July 2009. I was super excited when I passed and went the very next day to apply to several nursing homes and area hospitals. I had so much hope for a better future becuase I struggled through school and even had to go on welfare for the last couple months of school sine It was nearly impossible to work with the hours of school and taking care of my 2 girls. Now, almost six months later I have no job!!! I am spiralling into a black hole of depression and I feel terrible. I feel like I have wasted a year of my life that I can't get back!! I was working as a medical assistant at a Women's Health Clinic and making decent money before nursing school and I must say that I deeply regret giving that up for Nursing school.To make matters worse, I can't even go back there because I basically was given a choice between them and school and I chose school thinking that it was worth it. The company was unable to accomadate my school hours or save my job since we were already short staffed. So I educated myself right out of a decent job:crying2:. I have had 2 interviews since July, the one I though for sure I was a shoe in because he told me all the orientation dates and I had worked there in the past as an STNA, He even said that all need was a year experience and hopefully they would be able to give me that year or more!! but then days turned into weeks and I never heard from him again, I tried calling and emailing him but never got one response!! The other one was along the same lines, I interviewed and then heard nothing. Since those interviews in July I have not gotten a single call about a nursing job. I recently went a reapplied to all the jobs that I went back in July and so far nothing. What makes me feel the worse is that there are some people who tested months after me that are working, not alot, but there are some it makes me doubt myself and wonder what I'm doing wrong. I feel a little better because I know of several people who I graduated with that haven't found work yet either. But this is really wearing on my mind and my heart, I deeply regret becoming an LPN, I had a job where I could take care of my girls and contribute to society and now I sit home daily while fiance goes to work and feel like a loser, I am not contributuing to our household and we still struggle to make ends meet. I have literally tried everywhere, but there are only 14 nursing homes in this general area, I have tried almost all of them altough some are too hard to get to for me since I don't have a vehicle right now. I have applied to the local hospitals and even a few towns over that I could get to on the bus. I spend hours on the internest daily searching up jobs and I even was excited to find a few unadverstied leads, Like I found one at at Select Specialty Hospital when I just called to inquire, but she told me that I needed experience. I even tried home health and agency I was again told that I neede 1 year experience. I really have exhausted everything I can think of. I try to call and follow up but they tell me "Oh we'll call you if we're interested." or they say don't call or we'll discard your application. Oh and get this, I have gotten at least 4-5 interviews for medical assiting jobs , I have 3 years experience, BUT-- I was turned away by each and every one of them, Because they tell me they are worried about me being an LPN and that I will leave once a nursing job become available. I tried to reassure these employers that I would not do that because at this point I have no reason to believe I'll have an opportunity,I also tell them that it benefits them that they get an LPN for an MAs wages, but they still didn't hire me!! So now I have an LPN resume and a Medical Assistant resume which I have deleted everything about my LPN education, but then that backfires because the employers wonder what I have been doing for the past year since I haven't worked since Jan 09, then I have to break down and tell them in nursing school!! Now I can't even get an MA job because I'm an LPN !!! I have never heard of being discriminated against for contiuning my education, it feels like a curse and I can't win for losing. I am at a lost as to what to do!! I have thought about relocation but that is easier said than done. Plus it cost money that I don't have. I have stared applying across ohio but I don't even know how I'd make to to an interview out of town should I get one. Since I have to stay home with the girls while my fiance works. Is anyone else in this situation or have any advice?? I have talked this over with my fiance and I told him that If I don't have anything by the time college would start back up in August, I would be going back to school full time, so that at least I can bring in some nice refund checks form college. But now I worry if I should go back for my RN.I really don't think it's any better for RNs out there!! I would hate to be back in this predicament again. I cannot stand not working, I have worked since I was 15!! It kills my spirit to be unemployed!! Particularly when I thought I was doing something to improve my life!! I feel like a failure and a bad mother, all I did was cry during christmas this year beacuse I couldn't give my girls all I wanted!! I am afraid that If I get my RN I will have again wasted time and Money and I won't be able to find work, I am considering leaving nursing altogether, for something else in the health care field but more stable. I really feel like date line or 60 minutes need to do an expose on this so call booming nursing field and how it's a lie. Yet hospitals and nursing homes remain understaffed!! Please!! anyone have any advice or been in this circumstance?? I would really appreciate it!!

Oh yeah and BTW a girl I graduated with told me that she spoke with someone that told her that they have had 7000 new grads and they are dealing with lixense renewals and they only have 2 people working in the licensure unit!!! Absolutely ludacris!! How are you going to be a professional business, and charge people 75 bucks each times 7000 = ALOT of money and have 2 people working?!! It amazes my mind how inept they are. I don't really care if they are busy, it is not my fault nor my problem, I turned my app in a timely manner and now I sit here daily twiddling my thumbs waiting on 2 people to wade through 7000+ apps, No wonder the Ohio job market is overflooded, too many diploma mill schools cranking out more and more nurses every year. I am considering getting another career on the side just in case this flooded job market takes and even worse turn.

I was calling the licensure unit number, I started at 8:00 am and just kept pressing redial unitl I Finally got through at 8:45 ish, I told my boyfriend this phone is mine until I get through. I wasn't about to stop unitl I heard a human voice. I was relieved because they told me that it doesn't matter that my background check expired because they got my app before it expired so thank GOD for that!! I'm just so p'o'ed because I have a potential jo that I REALLY want badly, and it's an amazing job and I'm so lucky to have the opportunity in this economy. They just keep asking me where are you at as far as licensure and I just cringe every time!! I'll be darned if the pitiful ohio BON messes me up with this job I will be going to Columbus to picket if that happens:angryfire

Yeah I finally got through to a human being today after pressing redial Numerous times. She told me that the have program completion letters from 6/29 but the stack is 12 inches high and they are working on alphabetizing them and then after that they will get them from that department and THEN I should have my ATT she claims a few more days, IDK though it takes 48 hours to get your att from Pearson vue so probably more like a week or 2

I graduated on June 25th 2009 from LPN school, I sent my application for licensure, and fees and my pearson vue fee on 5/4/09, board recieved it on 5/5/09. They recieved my letter of completion from my school by certifed mail on June 29th,09. I am starting to get really P.O.'d I have done my part which was send my application in a TIMELY manner, and so far they have not done their part, it was waaay longer than 30 days before my name appeared as "pending", which wasn't until june 22, 09. Mind you they received my app on may 5th!! Now I have graduated and still no ATT, the website said 14 days from the time your name appeared as pending. I keep calling and emailing and I can't get through. Noone calls or emails you back!! All I want to know is if something is wrong or what is going on with my application. I really need to get licensed, because my background check expires on july 9th (tommorrow) I don't even know if i'll have to get a new one at this point. I also have an amazing job waiting for me but I can't even tell them when I'll be able to take the test!! I am so angry and anxious. My anxiety level is through the roof, I just need to talk to a human being. It's not fair that I have done what is required of me, and they can't meet their obligations.Like as I am typing I have called the BON at least 50 time- literally- trying to get through, I send an email at least every other day!! I'm just so confused as to what I should do. I would just go to their office if I was able to but I am not in Columbus. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do, or is in a similar situation? Does anyone know if it will matter that my background check expires tommorrow, I was told that it may not matter since my name is already pending, I am DREADING having to get another one which will further delay me getting licensed. If that happens , I will turn around and it will be Christmas and still no ATT!! If this keeps up I will be homeless by the time I get licensed. I have been broker than I ever have in my life this school year and I am so ready to work!! Sorry for the loong rant but I don't know what to do, Im so worried. I could just bawl my eyes out right now. :cry:

I work in Family Planning. I would love to be able to say.... please donot call to make an apointment and when I ask what day/time you say "as soon as possible" that means absolutley nothing to me there is no time slot for as soon as possible. You know good and well that you are supposed to order your contraceptive supplies by mail-don't keep saying that "noone told me that" ever month when you come in to pick up your pills because you "forgot you were running out" If another person complains about birth control pills being 10 DOLLARS PER PACK!!! I'm going to have a serious meltdown. I suppose you would rather pay $50 per pack at the pharmacy. Please don't get mad that you cannot be seen for an appointment when you walk in off the street. YOU MUST HAVE AN APPOINTMENT FOR ANY SERVICE what part of that didn't you understand? Please don't stand at the front desk and argue with me- once again If you donnot have an apponitment you will not be seen. PERIOD!! I don't care about your burning when you pee-if it's that bad go to the ER (sorry ER nurses) Please don't get mad at me when you have exhausted all of your scripts for EC and caresource will no longer cover them. You can either pay the 30 bucks or you can stop having unprotected sex-the choice is yours. How about taking some responsibility for your own actions and stop yelling and hollering that if you don't get your pills and you get pregnant than it is our fault. No it is YOUR fault for having unprotected sex. No I will not look in your throat and see if it "looks like gonorrhea-we donnot do throat cultures therefore I could care less what you have going on in your throat-call the health department like I told you!! Please don't call and ask me how it's possible that you tested positive for Chlamydia,Gonorrhea or Trich when you have been with the same guy/girl for "6 months" and you have only had sex with each other. You know as well as I do that someone has been cheating on someone if it looks like a duck,walks like a duck,sounds like a duck then it must be....... a duck!! it irks me when patient's come up to the check in window complaining that they have been here for x amount of minutes and there appontment was at x time and there were 3 0r 4 people that were called back before them that got her after them. Please have a seat and wait your turn or kindly reschedule-I will not go all the way to the back to "see if they forgot you" unless you willing to come behind the desk and check in these 20 people that just signed in while I traipse all over the clinic doing your bidding. I irks me more than ever when I room a patient and I ask are you on any birth control and they say yeah and I say what is it and they say "I don't know" Ohhh so you just take pills that you have absolutely no idea what they are, hmmm smart move. Also telling me "it's the one in the blue pack" does nothing for me. I HATE when people call and say I need to make three appointments for me and my friends, then I say okay give me the first one's birthday, then they yell hey so and so what's your birthday, then I say can you put so and so on the phone so that they can make their own darn appointment!!!! How about the ones that come in and say " I have these "bumps on my private parts---those are not Bumps, those are ulcerations you have HERPES!!!! then they promptly say " so what do I have to take pills or something?? AHHHH you have a disease that you will never be rid of!!! What really makes my day are the ones who come in for gonorrhea treatment and they insist that they don't want a shot of rocephin, they bawl and cry and complain that they "hate needles" and is there any other tx, I just want to say-how about you just let that gc run rampant in your system until your loins catch-a fire?? or the patients who test positive for trich and they ALWAYS use that classic line, "could I have gotten this from a toilet seat?" No you got this from promiscuos sex practices or a nasty,filthy,dirty sex partner you tell me. The patients that are level b meaning that according to their income they get 80 PERCENT OFF!!! they are the quickest ones to cpmplain about there 40$ bill for their entire annual exam including, pap, pelvic exam,breast exam, and birth control method 40 bucks for all that!!! and you are gonna sit at my window and complain. I actually had a lady say "How do you people sleep at night?" I said You have just received over $200 worth of services, I think 40 dollars is a small proce to pay. I would be thankful if I didn't have insurance and I was able to recieve gynecology and family planning services based on my income when so many other have no access to health care at all!!" that shut her up pretty quickly. how about the ones who come in for a "quick pregnancy test" with a friend or two and then the two friends decide that they had just better get pt too, even though they hvae no reason to believe they are preg they just want to jump on the bandwagon-- meanwhile there is a girl who is having a serious crisis preganncy and has to come back tommorrow for a pt becuz you idiots have taken up the last of my walk in slots grrrrrrrr The ones who cal in to "check on test results" when they have been told NUMEROUS times that we will not call them with a negative test result but that we will inform them ONLY in the event that they have a positive relut or abnormal pap.... Maybe that's why you haven't "heard from anyone in weeks" oooo belive me you WILL know if something comes back positive even if the health department has to step in!!!!! What really annoys me are the 20 somethings who come in for birth control and are so adamant about wanting us to use code names and alternate addresses, phone numbers etc...so that mommie and daddy don't find out that they are a patient.... Heaven forbid someone thought you were being responsible in preventing and unplanned/unwanted pregnancy...don't you think it's about time that you told your parents that you are on birth control I mean you're about to graduate college!!! Plan B/ EC (emergency contraceptive)/The morning after pill--IS NOT A METHOD OF BIRTH CONTROL donnot come in here every week to purchse it &then look @ me like I'm crazy when I kindly offer you a brochure on available birth control methods as well as info on STDs!!! NO.... YOU CANNOT BE MORE THAN 15 MINUTES LATE FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT. PERIOD.. if your Cooch issue was that serious you would have been here on time!! Don't call demanding a same day appointment for an annual exam, same day slots are reserved for people with seriuos issues meaning UTIs, std tx and "bumps" on their genitalia.. your precious paps not that important in the sheme of things and therfore you may have to wait until *gasp* tommorrow!! What really frys me are the underaged girls that have figured out that they will qualify as a free patient if they say their parents don't know that are a patient and then gabbing on their cell like "yeah mom I'm still waiting" then they get an exam,diflucan for a yeast infection and a years supply of BCPs and when they get to the check put window I say you have recieved XXX amount of dollars ( usually several hundred) worth of services.. are you able to make any kind of a donation?? They say " No!!!!! You can't even give us 5 bucks and you just frauded us out of very expensive services!!!!! Frys my buns every time!!!! There's this one lady that came ino the clinic one day and kept inistsing that she was told that she was going to be free by the nurse that she talked to on the phone- she kept being really pushy and didn't even want to fill out the forms to apply for reduced fees becuz she did not have any income yet when I asked her if she was recieving public assistance she said no- also said replied no when I asked her if she was living with someone who was supporting her, I told her that quite frankly it would be impossible to live alone without any help and no income unless she was living in a shelter which of course she answerd no to I asked her if she was living of of a savings account she said no and got all huffy with me asking me why I'm asking her all these questions. I then decided that rather than have the hassle I was going to authorize her as free patient. I told her that she could be free today but after that the best we could do would be to give her 80% off which is a darn good deal in my opinion. After about 15 monutes she comes up to my window all huffy and attitudey and says " How much longer is it going to be... BECUZ I'M ON MY LUNGH HOUR AND I HAve TO GEt BACK":yeah::chuckle:chuckle What an idiot talk about foot in mouth. I took one good look @ her and said..You just told me that you are unemployed.. I'm goging to need you to bring documentaton of your income and you cannot be free until I get those documents. She started stuttering and says.... I'm only per diem there its a temp agency. I said that's still income and I need a recent paystub. needless to say she decided to reschedule her appointment.... I just had to share that funny story!!:loveya: PS soory for the typing errors I'm gettin purty tired and don't feel like correcting them, you get the drift , right??

I work @ Planned Parenthood. I would love to be able to say.... please donot call to make an apointment and when I ask what day/time you say "as soon as possible" that means absolutley nothing to me there is no time slot for as soon as possible. You know good and well that you are supposed to order your contraceptive supplies by mail-don't keep saying that "noone told me that" ever month when you come in to pick up your pills because you "forgot you were running out" If another person complains about birth control pills being 10 DOLLARS PER PACK!!! I'm going to have a serious meltdown. I suppose you would rather pay $50 per pack at the pharmacy. Please don't get mad that you cannot be seen for an appointment when you walk in off the street. YOU MUST HAVE AN APPOINTMENT FOR ANY SERVICE what part of that didn't you understand? Please don't stand at the front desk and argue with me- once again If you donnot have an apponitment you will not be seen. PERIOD!! I don't care about your burning when you pee-if it's that bad go to the ER (sorry ER nurses) Please don't get mad at me when you have exhausted all of your scripts for EC and caresource will no longer cover them. You can either pay the 30 bucks or you can stop having unprotected sex-the choice is yours. How about taking some responsibility for your own actions and stop yelling and hollering that if you don't get your pills and you get pregnant than it is our fault. No it is YOUR fault for having unprotected sex. No I will not look in your throat and see if it "looks like gonorrhea-we donnot do throat cultures therefore I could care less what you have going on in your throat-call the health department like I told you!! Please don't call and ask me how it's possible that you tested positive for Chlamydia,Gonorrhea or Trich when you have been with the same guy/girl for "6 months" and you have only had sex with each other. You know as well as I do that someone has been cheating on someone if it looks like a duck,walks like a duck,sounds like a duck then it must be....... a duck!! it irks me when patient's come up to the check in window complaining that they have been here for x amount of minutes and there appontment was at x time and there were 3 0r 4 people that were called back before them that got her after them. Please have a seat and wait your turn or kindly reschedule-I will not go all the way to the back to "see if they forgot you" unless you willing to come behind the desk and check in these 20 people that just signed in while I traipse all over the clinic doing your bidding. I irks me more than ever when I room a patient and I ask are you on any birth control and they say yeah and I say what is it and they say "I don't know" Ohhh so you just take pills that you have absolutely no idea what they are, hmmm smart move. Also telling me "it's the one in the blue pack" does nothing for me. I HATE when people call and say I need to make three appointments for me and my friends, then I say okay give me the first one's birthday, then they yell hey so and so what's your birthday, then I say can you put so and so on the phone so that they can make their own darn appointment!!!! How about the psychopaths that come in and say " I have these "bumps on my private parts---those are not Bumps, those are ulcerations you have HERPES!!!! then they promptly say " so what do I have to take pills or something?? AHHHH you have a disease that you will never be rid of!!! What really makes my day are the ones who come in for gonorrhea treatment and they insist that they don't want a shot of rocephin, they bawl and cry and complain that they "hate needles" and is there any other tx, I just want to say-how about you just let that gc run rampant in your system until your loins catch-a fire?? or the patients who test positive for trich and they ALWAYS use that classic line, "could I have gotten this from a toilet seat?" No Iyou got this from promiscuos sex practices or a nasty,filthy,dirty sex partner you tell me. WHEW I could go on and on forever. But I must save the best for last The patients that are level b meaning that according to their income they get 80 PERCENT OFF!!! they are the quickest ones to cpmplain about there 40$ bill for theri entire annual exam including, pap, pelvic exam, breats exam, and birth control method 40 bucks for all that!!! and you are gonna sit at my window and complain. I actually had a lady say "How do you people sleep at night?" I said You have just received over $200 worth of services, I think 40 dollars is a small proce to pay. I would be thankful if I didn't have insurance and I was able to recieve gynecology and family planning services based on my incoem when so many other have no access to health care at all!!" that shut her up pretty quickly. thanx for reading my rant!

Believe me you are not the only one going bonkers with anticipation. Luckily my school has rolling admissions so you are suppossed to find out within three weeks of turning in all your application requirements. But that can be a loooong three weeks Hang in there-like I'm trying to do!! Just think about how even more excited you'll be once you get that acceptance letter the anticipation will make it even better!!!